Breaking Frontiers Testimonials
There are five areas directly affected since our working together.
1. Creating Focus - Having established exactly where we were we created a plan to get the best out of what we already had prior to laying down an achievable vision for the future.
2. Vision - The plan we made is a measuring stick that we keep going back to - it is working; sales have grown in excess of 37.5% over the last year. New appointments have been made in sales, marketing and operations.
3. Efficiencies - Company efficiency is now monitored and improving with reject rates and machine down time being reduced.
4. Measuring Business Performance - Monthly meetings now happen to discuss the four key areas of the business, finance, marketing, operations and growth. I create the growth report the others are all delegated, what a great tool for planning the next move.
5. Maximising the Health of the Business - By looking at the true costings we identified clear margins for each individual product. By knowing the products with the best margin you can steer the vision plan to success.
The best thing is I am enjoying running the business, because I am actually running it, it is not running me.
What did you like most about the strategy planning workshop?
Good to speak freely on neutral turf - Great product knowledge
Very Valuable - very useful - the day was very focussed and professional
"Mike really captures the essence of structuring and making a business work in a simple, easy to understand and simple to implement way".
Using his exceptional business mentoring and coaching skills Mike [Breaking Frontiers] has dramatically improved my business by pushing comfort zones and unleashing the hidden strengths within. His questioning and style is proving to be invaluable. The value that he brings to my business is worth many times the investment – he is worth his weight in gold.”
What did you like most about the strategy planning workshop?
‘Most useful was the fact that we could discuss our issues and work out solutions.’
‘Putting in action a plan forward for the way the department progresses.’
‘Breaking down long lists of essentials, inhibitors and enablers into top five priorities and then into action steps.’
What did you like most about the strategy planning workshop?
‘The whole build up and way of getting through to Five Clear priorities’
‘Focussing on facing clients’
‘very inspiring, accommodating and easy to understand – pointing out the main target A1 customers and how to improve sales this way I now feel confident to come up with new ideas.’
‘How to improve the time aspect and only focus on five things for the near future – I found everything useful.’
‘Now we don’t have anythings that block us.’
‘How the whole team was involved in finding their own answers.’
‘It made me re-think what I thought were blockers and the whole way that I work. Very useful.’
‘Clarity on our strengths and input on referrals.’
What was the most enjoyable part of the workshop for you and why?
Being able to relax knowing that Mike would keep things moving – getting all the really good ideas from the team
Overall how valuable do you feel that this seminar was to you and your team?
Really Valuable- gave the team a good focus for the next few months
Do you have any specific feedback regarding the facilitators’ style and /or approach?
Nice and relaxed – good at getting people to talk, but also moving forward
You could do yourself and your business a big favour and have a chat with Mike Pagan of Breaking Frontiers. I highly recommend Mike, he has helped me so much and is going to help me grow my business like I could not have never hoped for. He has also helped a number of other business people that I know. Don't call him unless you are prepared to listen and implement his suggestions.
Over the past 6 months Breaking Frontiers has given IRS the confidence and awareness to be able to tackle the task of enhancing and developing our business.
The initial health check process enabled the company to determine its strengths, weaknesses, goals and most importantly its achievements to date. The thought of late night / early morning meetings in a remote location may not appeal to everyone, however, I can honestly say it was the most productive and positive meeting we the directors have ever had. From the meeting we gained a key point action list, definitive personal roles and a sense of "We can take on the World."
Following the above, we continue to meet up on monthly basis to evaluate the completed actions, discuss new ideas and solve any problems. Each meeting we attend is positive, fresh and never have we found ourselves "going through the motions."
The above stages have helped IRS to believe in our company and not only plan for the future but also eradicate day to days problems by thinking pro-actively about situations prior to them becoming an issue.
Breaking Frontiers worked with our company as we worked through various aspects where we felt the business was not performing as well as they should. From the sessions we became less woolly and more focused, particularly in meetings - action points and time scales.
As we were new to running a company we had doubts as to how well we were performing - thinking there must be things we were missing. However with Breaking Frontiers' support and plain common sense, we gained in confidence and realised we were doing well and were actually successful.
Using our sessions as a spur we have grown the business, employing more staff and the number of training products we offer. We are now in a better position to achieve our goal of building the business up to a level where we can sell it and retire within a realistic time span.
Thank you for your considerable support throughout this busy year. As an organisation that delivers many training workshops and seminars, I can unreservedly state that you have brought real value to our programme. The quality of the content of your workshops and the professionalism of your delivery has been commented on by many of your clients.
We deliver specialist training in "investment readiness" to technology clients. From my point of view it is rare to find consultants with your broad experience of business and your deep expertise in marketing and sales strategy. Importantly, on a personal level it has been real fun working with you.
Once again, many thanks for your support.
Jumar Solutions enlisted help with the strategy and growth of our IT Solutions business; we commenced working together at the end of 2003.
It became apparent in early sessions that we had some fundamental issues preventing development and progression of our organisation. We were able to address these and improve upon our internal and external communication, financial management, business strategy, client liaison, marketing activities and awareness of Jumar within our market. Breaking Frontiers has given us the confidence and foresight to achieve the best value on the most profitable areas of our business.
A year on we are looking at a completely different organisation that has gone on to become the winner of the Deloitte Fast 50 Technology award, listing in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 and we have launched a new range of software products to the market that will achieve significant growth for our business, 40% growth in sales in 2004.